Location:
Main Campus
Session:
2026 Winter Semester | Trimestre d'hiver
Faculty:
Section de Common Law / Common Law Section
Unit:
Faculty of Law - Common Law Section_PT
Course Title:
CML4307
Course Code:
Legal Writing: Write With Purpose, Essential Skills for Lawyers
Section:
H
Course Description:
In this course, students will practice predictive and persuasive legal writing using realistic case facts and common legal documents. Students will learn effective editing and time-management strategies. Topics will include professional responsibility, legal ethics, and cultural and gender sensitivity in legal writing. Students will write in and outside of class and participate in class discussion and peer-feedback activities.
Posting limited to:
Professeur à temps-partiel régulier / Regular Part-Time Professor
Date Posted:
May 07, 2025
Applications must be received BEFORE:
June 10, 2025
Expected Enrolment:
16
Approval date:
May 07, 2025
Number of credits:
3
Work Hours:
39
Course type:
B
Posting type:
Régulier / Regular
Language of instruction:
Anglais | English
Competence in second language:
Passive
Course Schedule:
- - -
Requirements:
The Common Law Section is seeking candidates who are leaders in the legal profession. An LL.B., J.D., or equivalent is required for this position. The successful candidate will have extensive experience writing both predictive and persuasive legal documents.Experience giving oral and written feedback on legal writing or experience teaching legal writing will be considered an asset. The candidate must be willing to use active learning strategies and provide extensive feedback on multiple assignments. Further, the candidate must be able to work with the other writing professors as a team directed by the Legal Writing Academy. Candidates may be asked to submit writing samples.
The Common Law Section reserves the right to select a candidate who does not fully meet each of these requirements, where the candidate’s selection would be beneficial to the program, the course, the students or for a related reason.
Additional Information and/or Comments:
The candidate may be required to teach this course either online, in-person or hybrid mode
An acceptable level of education and/or experience could be viewed as being equivalent to the educational required and/or demonstrated experience. If you are invited to continue the selection process, please notify us of any adaptive measures you might require. Information you send us will be handled respectfully and in complete confidence. Employees are required under provincial law to successfully complete all mandatory legislated training. The list of training may be modified by provincial law.
The hiring process will be governed by the current APTPUO collective agreements; you can click here for the main unit, here for the OLBI unit, or here for the Toronto/Windsor unit to find out more.
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